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"If more 'Americans' are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law," Coulter adds. "I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time."

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"The prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury is required to count as a sport," she writes. "Most sports are sublimated warfare."

In American football, she writes, "ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box."
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The US has a really good chance here. It is superior in many ways to Belgium and the winner of Argentina/Switzerland.

It wasn't the group of death. Two of the teams were non-issue.

If you go back and look at all the groups with a sane mind, you will realize it lived up to it's name. There was not another group with that much talent in it. We did very well to get through at 1-1-1. Heck, we nearly got the draw at the end. You have to take into account the situation of our last match against Germany. Of course we wanted to win, but by no means did we want to risk getting blown into the Amazon River. Had Portugal not scored with :30 to go in extra time, we could have been much more aggressive against Germany. We beat Belgium and that late goal vs Portugal could end up being a blessing in disguise.

How would anyone think that wasn't the Group of Death? The last place team in the group (Ghana) got their only point from the best team in the group. To me, that's a group of death. Everyone was beating up on everyone... we just happened to get by on a better goal differential than Portugal thanks to Germany's 4-0 thrashing of them in the first match of the group.

So you wish you would have gone to Brazil to follow the US as they played in the group? Here's an account of what they went through. Not surprising really. Klinsmann even said that people need to prepare for this type of stuff. I'm not sure many people would have gone through all of this though.

How would anyone think that wasn't the Group of Death? The last place team in the group (Ghana) got their only point from the best team in the group. To me, that's a group of death. Everyone was beating up on everyone... we just happened to get by on a better goal differential than Portugal thanks to Germany's 4-0 thrashing of them in the first match of the group.

"The FIFA sanction is shameful, they have no sensitivity towards the fans, they might as well handcuff him and throw him in Guantanamo," said Maradona, who during the program wore a T-shirt bearing the message 'Luis, we are with you'.

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"The sanction on Luis is a way of punishing Uruguayan clubs for asking CONMEBOL (the South American confederation) for a fairer share of money. It hurts that they have cut short the career of a lad who is a winner. It's an excessive suspension, FIFA cannot talk about morals to anyone."

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"We feel that this is an assault on the poor because this gang will never forgive him because he never went to university, he isn't educated, he grew up on the field, and he is a natural rebel and expresses his anger naturally," said the president.

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Maradona added in agreement: "In this World Cup there have been much greater incidents than Suarez's (bite) on Chiellini."
Mujica responded: "There's no doubt about that, because we have seen all the games and this is a different punishment. This is the most indignant punishment.
"Here they add everything together but the boy really shouldn't be blamed for his reaction. It's a match and these things happen and then there's no need to look into every incident, because if we did that in every game we'd be playing five-a-side."